Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJames 1:9-18: Where Temptation Actually Comes From
James shuts down one of the oldest excuses in the book: "God is testing me." God cannot be tempted with evil and He tempts no one. Each person is lur…
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James 1:1–8: Joy in the Wreckage
James opens with a greeting that sounds like a contradiction: count it all joy when you meet trials of various kinds. The testing of your faith produ…
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NEW STUDY: The Letter of James
Luther called it an “epistle of straw,” but then preached from it for the rest of his life as the Word of God. In this series, host Pastor Phil Booe …
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Free-Text First Friday: Sacred Trash: What Ancient Holy Garbage Reveals About God's People
Think about the trash you took out this week. If someone dug through a year of your discards, what would they learn about you, about your priorities,…
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Habakkuk 1–3: The Righteous Shall Live by Faith
The prophet Habakkuk does what most of us only do in private: he argues with God. Why do the wicked prosper? Why does violence go unchecked? God's an…
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Ecclesiastes 12:1–14: Last Call: Remember Your Creator
The Preacher closes the book with an elegy for the human body that reads like a poem about a house falling apart. The grinders cease because they are…
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Ecclesiastes 11:1–10: Cast Your Bread
Qoheleth’s shares his God-given wisdom that we cannot control outcomes, predict disaster, or know which of our efforts will bear fruit. He focuses us…
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Ecclesiastes 9:13-10:20: Dead Flies in the Ointment: Folly Ruins Everything
One dead fly ruins the perfumer's oil, and a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. Qoheleth shifts into proverb mode and catalogs the ways fools w…
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Ecclesiastes 9:1–12: You’re Dead Men Walking, So Enjoy the Gifts of Life
The living know one thing the dead do not: that they will die. Qoheleth delivers this as good news, strange as that sounds, because the living still …
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Ecclesiastes 8:1–17: Is Justice-Delayed Justice Denied?
Qoheleth notices something that keeps theologians and barroom philosophers equally busy: the wicked prosper, the righteous suffer, and the sentence a…
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